Saturday morning, while sharing breakfast at the mission we discovered
that both the ministries that we brought together for this trip had as
our main focus the same pastor. Pastor Adam and his wife Alicia have a
small church in the middle of the barrio. They had not received our
message that we were coming so it was a surprise when we showed up
Friday evening and unloaded rice, beans, clothing, and a motor scooter
to replace Pastor Adam's broken moped.
Saturday morning Alicia does a bible school with the neighborhood children and then feeds them a meal. When we arrive the kids were playing on the plastic playground equipment that we brought down last spring.
Note to self: keep eye out for more playground equipment.
Alicia and her friends served us pancakes for breakfast (our second) and then the men went to pay a visit to the men's shelter while the women and children hung out at the church.
We saw the Father's fingerprints on our trip again when we met Julian at breakfast (green and white shirt) who was fluent enough in both English and Spanish to translate for the outreach we were planning in the park. Pastor Adam has and his daughter have minimal English and two in our group had some Spanish but the outreach would have been greatly handicapped without Julian's language skills.
This might be the best shot of the trip...
The church kitchen.
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